After suffering thru the atrociousness of the absolutely HORRENDOUS Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I was certain that I would never pay to see another Transformers film. But, after seeing the teaser trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon last December, I was convinced the new film would be better … cuz there was no way it could be worse. Yesterday, I made my way out to the Arclight Theater to see T3 and found that, for the most part, I enjoyed the movie. Oh, it’s not without it’s HUGE faults but overall … I did like the flick.

Let’s get the negative stuff out of the way. There are KEY plot points in this film that are just plain stupid. Like, DUMB. Much of the writing is pretty bad … I saw T3 in the Dome at the Arclight and I’d say that 90% of the jokes generated NO laughter at all. That the ending is abrupt was annoying but the way that the film’s resolution came about was so laughably bad, I damn near fell out of my chair. If we are supposed to believe that Megatron — the vicious leader of the Decepticons — could be “talked into” taking action by a skinny human girl then the Transformers writers truly think we are morons. But … absent these really terrible things about the movie, the action and FX more than makes up for the its shortcomings. Let’s be real, people do not go see Transformers for the writing, acting and/or plot development. If you turn your brain off for a bit, you can really enjoy Dark of the Moon. I did enjoy the inventive way that history is utilized in the storyline. From the moon landing, to the Chernobyl disaster, real events from our recent history are “explained” in T3 … in a very clever way, I must say. If I had to rank them, I’d say the first Transformers film is the best of the 3 … followed by Dark of the Moon … and Revenge of the Fallen doesn’t even rank — it’s that crappy. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is, for the most part, a fun film with a lot of eye candy (some of it filmed in my beloved Detroit, MI btw). I enjoyed it … way more than I hated it :)